Mass consciousness management as a goal of socioengineering

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Large masses of people cannot live without appropriate control mechanisms. In the past, the management of mass activity was easier (in this regard, for example, religion also worked), since the world was more stable, therefore its model (picture) was also constant and fixed. Today the world is in dynamics and this requires more sophisticated management methods that would take into account this dynamics, as well as the fact of a greater variety of permitted options for human behavior. Those. the past stages with one variant of behavior and established views of the world are from these positions simple and easy to control the mass consciousness.

Humanitarian technologies that do this do not analyze or produce texts, they produce life, since they have as their goal to change behavior. It is this kind of adaptation that allows humanity to move forward. In this regard, even drama can be considered a humanitarian technology, since in this way social information about the interaction of people is transmitted. And here we can recall the “rise” of specific authors during perestroika (for example, M. Shatrov).

Each entry into the history of either a person or any object always brings a change in behavior as a consequence. The Impressionists, for example, not only used new equipment (a new type of easel and brush), they had a new vision, which at the same time brought new content, since people of other professions and other situations were portrayed. This is the entry of counter-society, as one of the researchers writes (Nord PG Impressionists and politics. Art and democracy in the ninerteenth century. - London, 2000). He also writes of what was then France (p. 59): “The republican society of the time was marked by a friendly attitude towards prominent members of the French religious minorities. The regime's enemies even denigrated it as a result of Protestant, Masonic and Jewish influences. The new artists were the chroniclers of the republican scene. So it was not unexpected

It should be added here that they not only reflected, but also influenced this society by their reflection. Let's remember how the rejection of their works and salons caused scandals and discussions. They all the time fell into the focus of attention, albeit negative, but still attention.

Baudelaire, with his texts and his interest, is considered the ideological inspirer of impressionism. This can be seen from the impact on each of them, especially E. Monet (Perrusho A. Life of Manet. - M., 1988). That is, again we can see another line of influence. The next link is created, to which this influence is transferred: one person (one text) per group, and the group - to the whole society.

But this group must have its own technology for organizing the masses of people. Al-Qaeda terrorists can also be analyzed from this angle. They have text that organized them. This is the text of S. Qutba, which is now being studied even by the American military. And the organizational technology, albeit a specific one, has become terror. Impressionists carry their influence through paintings, terrorists through explosions.

We have the following transition option:

New Ideology - New Technology - Mass Influence

The Strugatskys are also considered as a variant of the formative texts for Gaidar-Chubais and their team of young reformers ( Kurginyan S. Esau and Jacob. The fate of development in Russia and in the world. - T. 2. - M., 2009 ). It was they who introduced this ideology of experimentation over society, which was implemented in the post-Soviet space.

Coco Chanel is another such example. In a New York Times article, she is called "the mother of reinvention." The status of the fashion industry is so high that it was almost the only industry that the Nazis wanted to keep in France.

What did Coco Chanel come up with? This question was answered by one of her competitors - she offered a suite for the poor. This idea of fashion for the poor is clear from her main invention, the little black dress. The poor (of course, conditional), or rather the broad masses of people, were close to fashion, that is, this was also a new behavior for them.

Chanel introduced a new lifestyle for a young woman, this modern woman is called garcon. This woman wears short clothes, has many lovers and never gets married, she can drive like a man. This is a model of today's modern woman who has a lifestyle that is independent from men.

By the way, Chanel herself had not very correct behavior during the war. She not only made a lover, a German officer, but also went to Berlin to talk with Schellenberg and Himmler to discuss a plan for how to influence Churchill, whom she personally knew. The Stink of Spirits is the title of a book review that reveals Chanel's behavior during the Nazi occupation.

From the point of view of the French, she was a “horizontal collaborator,” that is, she was a woman who had a relationship with a German. Her lover, Baron Hans Gunther von Dinklage, was a real spy. His task was precisely to recruit rich Frenchmen, turning them into informants for the benefit of Germany. True, the books portray him simply as an "Aryan playboy." Chanel was agent F-7124, which was codenamed Westminster (see here and here).

Chanel not only opposed the Jews, but also tried to take advantage of the fact that the Germans took their property. Her Chanel No. 5 perfume was produced and owned by the Werthmeiers, who were a wealthy Franco-Jewish family. But during the war, while they emigrated to the United States, they managed to transfer ownership to the French. In 1947, they rewrote the 1924 contract that gave Chanel 2 percent of all Chanel's No. 5 sales worldwide. And this alone gave her millions of dollars.

In an interview with the New Yorker, the author of the book about the "collaborationist" says that his book was published in America, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, but not in France. The French do not want to know this truth.

A third example of the introduction of new behavior is the history of the emergence of department stores. During this period, manufacturers entered mass production, they now needed mass consumption. As a result, it became necessary to attract as many buyers as possible. There is a loan that allows a person to make a purchase anyway without a sufficient amount of money.

Then, by the way, this organization of mass buying was repeated in the United States in the creation of supermarkets for the sale of groceries under the new rules in the thirties, where there was more choice, cheaper prices and parking places. This was all an example of aggressive marketing. We can also recall again the scandals that accompanied the entry of the Impressionists into academic salons.

The department store as a social institution is seen as a means of "liberating" women. They got the opportunity to buy, and this was completely new because it was a change in values, since before that a woman could only appear in a park or in a museum. Department also stores provided jobs for women. That is, it was a real generator of new behavior. Even skyscrapers are emerging as a response to the need for such stores. The general conclusion is this: department stores have changed the whole lifestyle, not just the forms of buying and selling.

If the Americans see the cradle of such department stores in themselves, then the French call it the first department store, which was created by the entrepreneur A. Bousico... The researchers believe that the creation of department stores was also prompted by the fact that rents in the central areas were two to three times higher, so the buildings had to go up or underground. In addition, Boucico had a different idea of selling than it was in the standards of the time: his small margin through cheaper prices had to be compensated for by large sales volumes. He added to that a fixed price, not a bargaining power. The new should include free admission without the obligation to buy something; he also introduced the practice of returning goods and getting money back. That is, the Busiko department store has laid a different option for interaction with the buyer. In today's words, we can say that he has become a buyer.

In these three examples, we see a fundamental impact on mass consciousness, which results in new types of behavior, which the following table can reflect:

In the latter case, by the way, as a consequence, a consumer society emerges, since consumption becomes massive. All these innovators had their own technology of survival in difficult conditions, which allowed them to move from defeat or a series of defeats to success.

We have our own examples of this behavior change. During perestroika, we saw the main strategic campaign for the transformation of Soviet values, which was unfolding, paradoxically, under the banner of Leninism. It can be seen in the speeches of M. Gorbachev, as well as two tactical campaigns - anti-alcohol and against the speech of N. Andreeva "I can not compromise principles" (1988). Gorbachev launched serious anti-propaganda against this article. D. Yazov recalls the meeting of the Politburo at which this article was discussed.

What was the secretary general Gorbachev afraid of when he launched such a serious campaign against the professor's article? For example, he demanded from each member of the Politburo to express their attitude to this article. In general, the situation was not so simple, since Gorbachev stopped the opportunity to accuse Yakovlev of the fact that, according to the KGB, he turned out to be an agent of CIA influence, therefore he was recruited along with A. Kalugin while studying at Columbia University (see here and here).

Former head of Soviet television L. Kravchenko also calls A. Yakovlev and E. Shevardnadze the main destroyers of the USSR. Moreover, he emphasizes that the clash between Azerbaijan and Armenia was artificial. By the way, about the employees of the well-known Vzglyad program, he says that every second person had a special service ID in his pocket.

Restructuring leads to a change in both values and behavior. Interestingly, it also highlights the vehicles of new values. Similarly, the Americans today are conducting not only military but also value campaigns in Afghanistan or Iraq. There are clear estimates of the success / failure of these campaigns. For example, for Afghanistan they have the following data ( Assesing military information operations in Afghanistan, 2001 - 2010. - Santa Monica, 2012 / RAND ):

Assessing Key Topics in Psychological Operations in Afghanistan

The mass consciousness is rather inertial, so such campaigns to change it take a lot of time and resources. Especially when this campaign is associated with the enemy.

But at the same time, not only standard ways work, but also non-standard ones. For example, video games, which also carry the potential for change that are being implemented in the mass consciousness. Obama, in connection with the "epidemic" of murders in the United States, even asked to test the effect of video games on the activation of aggressiveness (see here and here). On the whole, this can also be a reaction of the mass consciousness to the tension of the modern world. After all, the question often arises as to what kind of drugs the killer used.

During the Industrial Revolution in the UK, gin consumption skyrocketed as a stress-relieving technology. The current version of this technology is the consumption of television products. The 2011 data speaks of a daily 4 hours of watching TV for English citizens.

Many such patterns of behavior, which seem to us eternal, were actually introduced into society not so long ago. Tea became fashionable in England after Charles II married the daughter of the Portuguese king, who brought with her a new habit of drinking this drink. The British East India Company made it cheap. In 1717, the first tea shop was opened, aimed specifically at women with the understanding that they can promote tea in society. Women at that time could not go to cafes, but here they could drink tea. And it became the first public place for women.

Tea advertisements provided up to 50% of newspaper revenues, as a result of which tea worked to support the press. Before that, tea became the target of the first PR - the Dutch East India Company hired a Danish doctor who wrote many articles on the medicinal properties of tea to promote it in Europe. Tea also supported the first industrial revolution in England, because the workers drank tea to stay awake, because they were working with machines for the first time, and there you had to be very careful.

Mass behavior and especially its new forms require a variety of support. The inertia of the past does not allow for easy transition to the new. Therefore, new behavior enters life only with the help of additional means.

 

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How the media manipulates public consciousness​

Good morning everyone, this is Pavluu! Today I would like to continue the topic of manipulating public consciousness. This time we will take a look at some of the media tricks. This article is taken as a basis. But since it is already 12 years old, we decided to add some actual examples to it.

1. An event that does not exist​

The simplest thing to do with an Event is not to mention it at all. You, alas, will not hear on state television about many things that in any country would become a reason for a systematic and daily scandal.
Actual examples: the fire in Kemerovo, the lawlessness of the riot police at rallies, and so on.

2. Look for the other half​

Often we are not informed about the event itself, but about half of it.
Example 1. Gazprom demanded that Shell sell its stake in Sakhalin-2, and when Shell's conditions did not suit Gazprom, Deputy Head of Roskompriroda Oleg Mitvol announced environmental violations in the project.
The media will tell you about the environment, but not about the fact that it began to be violated immediately after unsuccessful negotiations.
Example 2. Senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestyev had an estate opposite Putin's residence; the president did not like his noisy parties. Izmest'ev was offered to sell the plot. Izmest'ev turned to Raiffeisenbank with a request to evaluate the site, and then Roskompriroda again found that Izmest'ev's house was too close to the water. They will show about the struggle of Roskompriroda against the oligarch, but they will be silent about the neighborhood with the president.
A half event is almost worse than an absent one. Half of the events make up the lion's share of our news, they imitate some kind of legitimacy of life. Unfortunately, there can be only one piece of advice. The investigator, observing the crime, asks, qui prodest - who benefits. Follow the news like a crime. Each time ask: "Who benefits?"... Half the time you can't go wrong.
Remember, however, that logic cannot replace information. Very often what seems logical is random. Don't forget Sir Yeats, head of the Statistical Society of London. One of the correspondents wrote to him: “All the great kings of the Tudor dynasty named Henry died on Friday. Does it follow from this that Friday is a fateful day for the Henry kings? " The great mathematician replied: “Your hypothesis does not contradict the statistics. I recommend that you continue to observe. "
I understand that the recommendation to treat news as a crime is somewhat extreme, however, alas, it is. The main difference between crime and justice is that justice occurs because ... and crime - in order to. Justice comes from not paying taxes, and crime is to take the company away. Unfortunately, almost all of Russian political life is structured like a crime.

3. Event and side dish​

Separate the event from the verbal side dish. For example, if you are told about the terrible tragedy when 155 people were burned in a cable car in the Austrian Alps, you may be told as the first news that Putin expressed condolences to the victims, and as the second - tell about the fire itself. At the same time, a story about condolences can take a minute, and a story about a fire - 40 seconds. It is clear that subconsciously you must remain that Putin is more important than fire (after all, it took him a minute, and the fire took 40 seconds). Separate the event from the side dish and match them yourself in order of importance.
Most often, the side dish principle is used when it comes to international news. If we are told about another squabble in the Middle East, we are usually informed about the initiative that Russia has put forward in this case. Pay close attention to the words: the keyword is not "promoted" or "under discussion", but "has been adopted." Anyone can take the initiative. Discuss too. The question is that the initiative should be adopted, but this somehow does not happen with Russian initiatives.
It is obvious that the country, which every time puts forward an initiative that no one ever takes, is like an elderly owner of two shares, who at a meeting of Gazprom shareholders raises the question of changing the chairman of the board. Of course, he will tell his wife about his initiative at tea in the evening, but, apart from his wife and children, no one knows about his initiatives.

4. Demand continuation!​

Any real event has a continuation. It’s not like a PR campaign: it has no continuation. Therefore, when you are announced about some high-profile event, carefully wait for the continuation. Sometimes, by its absence alone, it can be argued that the original event was sheer eyewash.
An actual example. The recent arrest by the FSB of "terrorists in shorts", ordinary Tajiks, who allegedly used telegrams for communication. There is no continuation of this story, an obvious stuffing.

5. Analyze the logic​

Lies are often contradictory. Sometimes it’s enough to look closely to ask yourself the right questions.
Example. If you are shown how in the city of Buinaksk at 12 o'clock three militants shoot back from 300 police officers, and then they report that a piece of paper was found with the militants, from which it follows that they were going to seize the school, take a breath and ask yourself: “Why do Muslim extremists need to seize the school? in a Muslim city. Buinaksk is not Moscow or Ossetia. "

6. The principle of heat traps​

If an event has become public and cannot be denied, the state media very often begin to discuss not the event itself, but the heat trap versions fired around.
Example. Take the same situation with the fire in Kemerovo. State media tried to focus on the version of "set on fire", even at first they talked about a terrorist attack. They immediately showed some goldfinch who was in charge of fire safety with a chef diploma. Anything to hide obvious corruption and all these "perfectly passed checks."

7. See what time it is​

The favorite pastime of the media is to report on events that have yet to take place.
Man is not accustomed to being in the future tense in his presence. There is not a single novel in world literature that is written about how one person, for example, will kill another. All novels are written about how it happened. Inattentively, you can miss the future tense and take the assumption for the fact.
Later, when the event does not occur, any mention of him either simply disappears, or the embarrassment is explained briefly: "Enemies." In rare cases, they go on outright lies: for example, they report that the churches have already united, and then the question is overwritten.
Look not only at the screen! Look at the clock!

8. About official events​

A significant portion of the airtime is taken up by stories about official events. Everything that is said at official events, multiply by zero or, if you wish, divide by zero. If Khodorkovsky was imprisoned in the country, Kozlov was killed and Sakhalin-2 was taken away, while in Sochi there is an investment forum - a forum in Bobruisk!
If you are told that the Iranian delegation left Russia after a day of negotiations, and they say that “the negotiations will continue,” do not pay attention to the words, but pay attention to the fact of departure.

9. Quantum political science​

There is an area of political life that determines a lot, but itself remains completely closed. This is all that is connected with the reshuffle in the Kremlin - with the fight of bulldogs under the carpet. A naive TV viewer, having watched Pushkov and Karaulov, and sometimes heard a lot of friends who were “definitely told”, “just got a call from the Kremlin”, may try to draw some conclusions about future decisions and appointments.
Don't do quantum political science. It is just as impossible to determine who will be the prime minister or the prosecutor general in Russia in three minutes, as it is impossible to determine the momentum of an elementary particle, knowing exactly its position in space.
Do not trust information "from the source". The primary source is not a source of reliable information, it is the person concerned. Do not trust the experts in compromising evidence. This is not even the primary source, it is secondary radiation.
Do not believe if they call you from the Kremlin and tell you in secret that twice two is seventeen. Take a calculator. Do not believe if they call you from the Kremlin and tell you in confidence that twice two is four. They have strange ideas about arithmetic in the Kremlin.
Spit on the Kremlin. Consider them there, like quarks in a proton. They are there, but no one has seen them.

10. Change of scale​

Once Edgar Alan Poe had a chance to observe a terrible monster. “The mouth of the animal was placed at the end of the trunk sixty or seventy feet long, which was about the same thickness as the body of an elephant. At the base of the trunk a thick mass of bristly shaggy hair blackened ... The body had the shape of a wedge, the top of which was turned towards the ground.
You guessed it - I am quoting the description of the moth moth from the story "Sphinx". The butterfly was crawling along the thread inches from the poet's face, and he thought it was crawling along the side of the hill. If Mr. Po had watched Ren TV, he wouldn't have seen it yet.
Beware if the opinion of the hired marginals is passed off as the opinion of the public; if they stick out the secondary and hide the main. Check if this is the case.

11. Renormalization​

There is such a thing - renormalization. She needs this for what. If you start calculating the mass and charge of an electron in accordance with the equations of quantum electrodynamics, then in the first approximation you will get a real value, and as you add new terms to the equation, nonsense and infinity will come out. Renormalization is cutting off the diverging series. Roughly speaking, a ban on refinements.
Absolutely all Russian semi-official analysts do not follow the renormalization procedures; this is the same change in scale, only in the part of analytics, when the obvious and main causes of the event are ignored, but absolutely correct, but deeply secondary things are emphasized.
For example, they begin to explain to you that NTV was taken away because Gusinsky blackmailed other oligarchs, used TV for political purposes and generally owed Gazprom. This is all perfectly true, but insignificant compared to the Kremlin's unwillingness to see independent television. It is the same as if the robber was asked: "Why did you stab this man and take his wallet away from him?"
Who knows. Maybe he didn't pay.

12. Beware - campaign​

It happens with a scale and exactly the opposite: an event in itself important is only part of a PR campaign. Alexander Koptsev, who slaughtered Jews in a synagogue, is an important event, but he became just part of a PR campaign that nationalism is coming to Russia, from which only Putin will save it. The son of the Minister of Defense, who ran over a woman, is an important event, but damn it would have had such a resonance if all potential successors did not have an opponent named Sechin. The verdict of the Ossetian Kaloev, who killed the Swiss dispatcher, became one of the components of a large-scale campaign called "Ours are being beaten in the West."
The rule here is simple: your attitude towards Ivanov Jr. should be an attitude only towards his actions. You never know who you help those. If you start counting who you are helping, you will drown.
And if you want to understand whether the Event is in front of you or part of the Campaign, pay attention to this. For example, here is the Ossetian Kaloev, who killed the dispatcher. Is there another case when the state media approved a blood feud? In our country, those who run in the Caucasus in the forests are also taking revenge - not on Swiss dispatchers, but on the federals. Are they extolled for it? No.
And who, in fact, are Kaloev's accomplices in terms of the statistical number of "our beats"? And here they are, accomplices: Adamov and Borodin. They are being defended on a statewide scale, and in order to fool the people, they drag Kaloev into this company. To protect not Russian bribe-takers, but simply Russian citizens.
The bad thing about the PR campaign is that one cannot but participate in it. She herself becomes an Event. And the normal media, which would be occupied by other people, are forced, instead of discussing whether Adamov stole money or not, to discuss whether they discriminate against us abroad or not?

13. Against yourself​

Remember, the most compelling testimony is when a person testifies against himself. If a Chechen tells you how during the war he went alone in an APC, do not believe it, maybe he's showing off. But if you read in Troshev's book "My War" a heartbreaking story about how these vile Chechens, with hooks in their hands, threw themselves on a convoy of cars and steamed their gas tanks (that is, imagined a picture: a column armed to the teeth, a Chechen who has nothing, except for a rod, against machine guns and armored personnel carriers ...), and so, if you read this in Troshev's book - believe it unconditionally. Troshev did not understand what he said.

14. News grammar​

Look at the news as an offer. Parse it according to the rules of grammar. See where the subject is, and where the object is, what tense the verb is in, and what are the circumstances of the image and place of action.
The news often tries to swap the subject and object, that is, the object and subject of the action. If you are told: “The Russian Foreign Ministry reacted to the fact that a North Korean missile fell on Russian territory,” it should be translated as follows: the Koreans launched a missile. She fell. And we were flapping our ears. Actually, it is not the Foreign Ministry that should react to the falling missile, but the air defense.
In the news, the circumstances of the image, place and time of the action are often attempted to be more important than the action itself. And the reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Duma, etc.
In a word, remember: a lie that was repeated from the screen does not become true from this. But it becomes the foundations of the state.

 

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Mass Management​

Salute, ZChS members, if people begin to show dissatisfaction with the current policy, which stems from the narrow corporate interests of the ruling elite and their proxies, then in order to avoid violence against the people, this can only be resisted by propaganda, the instrument of which is the media.

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a linguist, philosopher, public figure, author of books and political analyst has compiled a list of "10 ways to manipulate" using the media.

Distraction

The main element of social management is to divert people's attention from important problems and decisions made by political and economic ruling circles, through the constant saturation of the information space with insignificant messages. The use of distraction is essential in order to prevent citizens from gaining important knowledge in the field of modern philosophical trends, advanced science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics. Instead, the information space is filled with news of sports, show business, mysticism and other information components based on relict human instincts from eroticism to hard pornography and from everyday soap stories to dubious ways of easy and quick profit.

“… Constantly distract the attention of citizens from real social problems, switching it to topics that have no real meaning. Ensure that citizens are constantly busy with something and they do not have time to think; from the field - into the corral, like all other animals. "(N. Chomsky quote from the book" Silent weapons for calm wars ").

Create problems and then suggest solutions

This method is also called problem-response-solution. A problem is being created, a kind of "situation" calculated to evoke a certain reaction among the population so that it itself requires the adoption of measures that are necessary for the ruling circles. For example, allow urban violence to spiral or organize bloody attacks to get citizens to demand stronger security laws and policies that infringe on civil liberties.

Or cause some kind of economic, terrorist or man-made crisis in order to force people in their minds to take measures to eliminate its consequences, albeit in violation of their social rights, as a "necessary evil". But you need to understand that crises are not born by themselves.

Gradual application method

To get an unpopular measure taken, it is enough to implement it gradually, day after day, year after year. It is in this way that fundamentally new socio-economic conditions (neoliberalism) were globally imposed in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

Minimizing the functions of the state, privatization, uncertainty, instability, massive unemployment, wages that no longer provide a decent life. If all this happened at the same time, it would surely lead to a revolution.

Postponement of execution

Another way to push through an unpopular decision is to present it as “painful and necessary” and to get the citizens' consent at the moment to implement it in the future. It is much easier to make sacrifices in the future than in the present.

First, because it won't happen immediately. Secondly, because the people in their mass are always inclined to cherish naive hopes that "tomorrow everything will change for the better" and that the sacrifices demanded of them will be avoided. This gives citizens more time to get used to the idea of change and humbly accept it when the time comes.

Treat people like little children

Most publicity messages use arguments, characters, words, and intonation as if they were schoolchildren with developmental delays or mentally disabled individuals.

The more intensely someone tries to mislead the listener, the more he tries to use infantile speech turns. Why?

If someone addresses a person as if he is 12 years old or less, then due to suggestibility, in response or reaction of this person, with a certain degree of probability, there will also be no critical assessment, which is typical for children aged 12 or less. ...

In advance, naive reasoning and common truths embedded in political speeches are designed for the perception of a wide audience, to which the above and below described methods of manipulating its consciousness are already being applied.

Emphasize emotion rather than reflection

Impact on emotions is a classic technique of neurolinguistic programming, aimed at blocking the ability of people to rational analysis, and ultimately to the ability to critically comprehend what is happening. On the other hand, the use of the emotional factor allows you to open the door to the subconscious in order to introduce thoughts, desires, fears, fears, compulsions or stable patterns of behavior there. Spells about how cruel terrorism is, how unjust the government is, how the hungry and humiliated suffer leave behind the scenes the true reasons for what is happening. Emotions are the enemy of logic.

Keeping people ignorant by cultivating mediocrity

Ensure that people become unable to understand the techniques and methods used in order to control and subordinate them to their will. The quality of education provided to the lower social classes should be as meager and mediocre as possible so that the ignorance that separates the lower social classes from the upper classes remains at a level that the lower classes cannot overcome.

This includes the propaganda of the so-called "contemporary art", which is the arrogance of mediocrity, claiming to be famous, but unable to reflect reality through those works of art that do not require detailed explanation and agitation for their "genius". Those who do not recognize the remake are declared backward and stupid and their opinion is not subject to wide publicity.

Encourage citizens to admire mediocrity

To instill in the population the idea that it is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and ill-mannered. This method is inseparable from the previous one, since everything mediocre in the modern world appears in huge quantities in all social spheres - from religion and science to art and politics. Scandals, yellow pages, witchcraft and magic, dubious humor and populist actions are all good for achieving one goal - to prevent people from having the opportunity to expand their consciousness to the vast expanses of the real world.

Increase feelings of self-guilt

Make a person believe that only he is guilty of his own misfortunes, which occur due to his lack of mental capabilities, abilities or efforts. As a result, instead of rebelling against the economic system, a person begins to engage in self-deprecation, blaming himself for everything, which causes a depression, leading, among other things, to inaction. And without action, there can be no talk of any revolution! Both politicians and scientists (especially psychotherapists) and religious leaders apply sufficiently effective doctrines to achieve the effect of self-flagellation of patients and flocks, in order to manage their life-affirming interests, directing actions in the right direction.

Know more about people than they know about themselves

Over the past 50 years, advances in the development of science have led to the formation of an ever-widening gap between the knowledge of ordinary people and the information possessed and used by the ruling classes.

Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the "system" has received at its disposal advanced knowledge about a person, both in the field of physiology and psyche. The system managed to learn more about an ordinary person than he knows about himself. This means that in most cases the system has more power and more control over people than themselves.